Indiana Pension Officials Pursue Temp Company Over
Losses

March 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Indiana state
pension officials have demanded that a temp agency make up
more than $23,000 after accusing a temp refunds analyst
placed at state pension offices of theft.

Public Employees’ Retirement Fund (PERF) officials
believe that Today’s Staffing in Indianapolis should cover
the losses because the worker had a police record that
included misdemeanor convictions for marijuana possession
and criminal conversion, along with arrests on check
deception and drug dealing charges, the Associated Press
reported.

Fund general counsel Edward Gohmann said in a letter
to the temp company that
decision to place Shaunna Stone at the public agency
was an outrage. “By providing to PERF a temporary worker
that you either knew or should have known had the habit of
committing criminal acts, you have directly caused the fund
to suffer damages,” Gohmann wrote.

Stone, who worked at the agency for eight months,
faces federal charges that she stole the identities of
two public employees and bilked three others out of
nearly $11,000. Since those charges were filed, state and
federal investigators say they have found evidence that
she stole more than $23,000 and stole the identities of
at least 70 public employees. Stone has pleaded innocent
to those charges.

Today’s Staffing spokesman Logan Sossman said the
company checked the employment history of its workers,
but only conducted criminal checks if requested by the
client.